Biography Tom Hogan

Tom Hogan was born in Sioux Lookout, Ontario on October 31st 1955. He was abandoned as a baby and adopted by an abusive man. When the courts removed Tom from that home at the age of 12, he was bounced around from home to home, spent time in a children's psychiatric residential program, and finally chose the road of wandering and homelessness. He has worked with carnivals, been a migrant vegetable picker, and has spent time in more addiction recovery programs than you can shake a (talking) stick at.

Though all of these paths took Tom far from his First Nations roots, it was being incarcerated at Stony Mountain Penitentiary in Manitoba that started his journey back to them. While in prison Tom started studying his culture and the work
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